City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1798 - 31st December 1798

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Image 383 of 89921st June 1798


Face downwards and she called to him and as
he did not answer she went into the Room
to him and endeavour'd to lift him up
whenand called in her Next door Neighbour
to her Assistance and they turned him upon
his Back when he was motion less and
Speechless but he groaned whereupon
the Husband of the deceased went out for
a Doctor and sometime after a Person
came from the Infirmary who endeavoured
to open a Vein and then said it was of no
Use to toy further means for his Recovery
as he was quite dead, this Deponent has
heard his Wife say that the deceased was
subject to Fits and as the deceased had
hurthisone Side of his Head, she imagines
he hurt it by falling off his Chair
against a Post of Water in near him in wch.
he used to dip his Leathers in being a
Harness maker

The [mark] Mark
of Elizabeth Somerfield< no role >

The Verdict Sudden Death by the Visitation of God

Thos Williams< no role >




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